I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.